CXL Consortium Releases 3.2 Specification

Dec. 3, 2024 – Beaverton, Ore. – The CXL Consortium, an industry standard body focused on coherent connectivity, announces the release of its Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.2 Specification. The 3.2 Specification optimizes CXL Memory Device monitoring and management, enhances functionality of CXL Memory Devices for OS and Applications, and extends security with the Trusted […]

At SC24: Valvoline Global Revs up HPC-AI Liquid Cooling with Debut in Atlanta

Valvoline Global has taken its engine cooling and lubrication heritage going back more than a century and announced at SC24 its HPC-AI liquid cooling debut. In this interview, we spoke with Samuel Raudales, Valvoline Global’s ….

HPC News Bytes 20241202: Do LLM’s Understand?, Agentic AI, Simulating the Universe, France Adding Reactors, TSMC 2nm Chips

A happy December start to you! From the world of HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (7:38) romp through recent news, including: LLMs and “emergent” understanding, collaborative Agentic AI, Frontier exascale ….

Pasqal 100-Qubit Quantum Computer Shipped to Jülich Supercomputing Centre

Dec. 2, 2024 — The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany received a 100-qubit quantum computer from neutral atom quantum computing company Pasqal in mid-November.

Tenstorrent Closes $693M+ Series D Round

Dec. 2, 2024, Santa Clara, CA: Tenstorrent said it closed over $693M in its Series D funding round at a pre-money valuation of $2B. Samsung Securities and AFW Partners led the oversubscribed round. In addition to the leads, other investors joined the round including XTX Markets, Corner Capital, MESH, Export Development Canada, Healthcare of Ontario Pension […]

Quantum: Alice & Bob Announce Logical Qubit Emulator

PARIS, 26th November 2024 – Alice & Bob, a fault-tolerant quantum computing company, today announced Felis 1.0, its toolbox with logical qubit emulator designed to help users prepare for quantum computing by facilitating the transition from NISQ to fault-tolerant algorithms. “Many business leaders have yet to realize that the quantum algorithms their teams develop will […]

At SC24: Alex Bouzari on HPC-AI Trends Driving DDN’s Data Intelligence Platform

We sat down with DDN co-founder and CEO Alex Bouzari at SC24 to discuss new trends in high performance storage – or, as Bouzari refers to DDN’s core offering, its data intelligence platform. Bouzari is a stalwart of modern HPC ….

HPC News Bytes 20241125: SC24 Hit Show in Atlanta, Hyperion’s Booming Market Update, Report: TSMC Tech in Huawei AI Chips

A happy Thanksgiving week to you Americans and a happy last week of November to the rest of the world. Here’s a rapid (6:43) run-through of recent news and trends from the world of HPC-AI, including: SC24 in Atlanta ….

Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute Selects IQM Spark Quantum Computer

Taipei, Taiwan, 25th November 2024 – The Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI) under the National Applied Research Laboratories today announces the procurement of its first full-stack quantum computer from IQM Quantum Computers (IQM). The delivery and installation of the system at TSRI’s premises will take place in the second quarter of 2025. Both TSRI and IQM aim […]

At SC24: Lenovo Update on Meeting New HPC-AI Demands — ‘From Exascale to Every Scale’

At SC24 this week in Atlanta, we caught up with Lenovo’s Moritz Manthey, Senior Manager of HPC Products and Solutions, for an update on Lenovo HPC-AI class servers built to address the emerging requirements for compute, data access ….